Tuesday, December 16, 2008

What Snowplows?

This is ridiculous. We just traveled 15 miles through the City. Guess how many plows we saw? Guess how many salt trucks? We'll give you a hint:

Z _ R _

Vanna, we'd like to buy a vowel please. Two vowels actually.

WBBM is reporting that all 274 (or similar number) snowplows and salt trucks are out clearing streets.

We say bullshit. Who are you going to believe - Daley's Snow Command or your goddamn lying eyes?

Daley has lost it. He's "saving" money at the cost of property damage and endangering lives. One of the newspapers noted "slip-and-fall" visits to the emergency rooms were something like three times usual averages. Our own Medical Section has noted a marked increase in injuries related to icing. How much is Daley willing to lose in missed work time, lawsuit payouts and lost sales tax revenue when everyone decides to do their Christmas shopping somewhere they can actually drive to in less than an hour? It's three-and-a-half hours from downtown to O'Hare and the city doesn't even do the expressways anymore. Surface streets are worse.

139 Comments:

Anonymous said...

I saw lots of trucks over on 106th east of torrence, in the city lot. I actually saw a truck, but it wasn't plowing or salting, then I saw another one, plowing but that was it in a 3 hour drive throughout the south east and west side.

Some little worm from Streets and San was just on TV wringing his hands and whining about "budgetary constraints." You'd think we didn't pay taxes here.

They shoot fireworks off all summer, and "Animal Control" drives around passing out dogs instead of helping bite victims (they have repeatedly had trucks at the Norwood Park train station) but they can't afford to plow.

Christ Almighty, like having a 95-year-old woman for a landlord. "Salt cost it money. Yah. Too much it money. No, no. No. You talk it my nephew. He not here."

HEY. MAYOR DALEY.

CLEAR THE FUCKING STREETS!

The idiot is out there today playing Santa Claus instead -- handing out presents.

agreed.....my son just came home from work (about a 25 min trip normally (about 8 miles); tonight, 1 1/2 hours). I asked him if he saw any plows out, he said, none. If Shortshanks was teaching a class, it should be mismanagement 101....

Same here and I havent seen ONE all year.... Media where are you?? I have seen city tow trucks stealing.... um impounding citizen vehicles with less than an inch of snow.... what a fucking joke the city of shitcago is.

I had a 1 hour commute home today. It usually takes me 20 minuets to get home in rush hour traffic. I never saw any, nada, zip, zilch, zero, snow trucks. Oh wait, I lied, I did see one. A local hospital hired a salt/plow truck to clear the CITY streets around the hospital so that the ambulances could get to it. Un-frickin-believeable!

daley is nothing but a pompous jagoff we should all go to city hall and arrest daley the 50 idiots for inattention to duty nothing but a bunch of do nothing crooks! maybe since they want to giv 2+ million to the home invader punk, we have less money to plow! Lets set a date and go to the hall get complaints ready call the national media and make the arrests it is our job!

We can afford the 2016 summer olympic games but we can't afford to salt and plow our streets? Gimme a break! I hope the lack of salting and plowing do for Daley what they did for Bilandic. It is time for leadership change! Maybe Daley will take a tumble on the ice, huh?

Michael Bilandic's demise was his attitude towards inadequate snow removal under his regime. Daley has the same attitude and is putting thousands of pedestrians and motorists at risk. This is about safety and if you have to spend the money for safety you do it. He can't be nickel and diming us for his Olympics, which is exactly what he is doing. I hope the voters remember this (and all the fraud) when it comes to election time.

Well it did not start snowing until 1500 hours. S&S workers get off at 1500. No overtime, they will begin plowing and salting at 0700 hours. Until then you are on your own. The Mayors response, FUCK UM!

Oh wait, maybe it was that BLAGO who said that?

Besides he needs all the money saved on overtime to buy Tulip Bulbs in the spring.

There is no shortage of salt, because he is selling our reserves to the suburbs for less than what we paid for it. I guess if your not going to use it, you must get rid of the stuff.

It took a while but now he is treating the tax paying citizens and his voters (not one in the same), just like he treats the City's employees. FUCK EM!

Saw not a single plow, and I was out shoveling snow on NW Hwy for over an hour. Usually you see a few of them go by in even 20 minutes. No wait..I take that back. I did see one. It was Park Ridge's. They pay out the ass like we do in taxes, only they get something for their money.

actually, come to think of it....wife's friend works for S$S..usually drives a streetsweeper, also drives a snow plow in the winter; he says that there's a "no overtime" order in effect....thanks, shortshanks....what a mutt

i live 3 miles from the station. it took me 1hr to get home. lets get a special law and relieve king "dick" of his powers.i did not see 1 plow the entire time. i hope these "educated citizens" start waking up. this city is becoming such a joke. oh, by the way Indiana south of grant park was pretty snow free.i wonder why?

Hello from North and Harlem. Not one snow plow. Stopped at the grocery store and told the two young check-out girls, in 1979, Mayor Bilandic lost an election for just this reason. Seems to me you can be as inept or corrupt as can be, so long as the snow gets plowed and the garbage get picked up. We Chicagoans have such a low expectancy, and now the City can't even make that threshold.

I saw 2 CTA trucks out salting Higgins. I didn't even know the Cta had salt trucks.Is everyone on their own now? Are we going to have to salt the street in front of our house.The city can't provide police to keep our streets safe and now the city can't provide snow removal and salting to keep the streets safe.But it probably isn't his fault. After all the alderasses need raises and their 1.3 million play money.

DAMMIT! This shit makes no sense! 2 fuckin' hours to run 2 errands in a 1 mile radius of my house and i saw not 1 plow or salt truck on Western, Damen or Ashland... Welcome to a wee taste of hell Chicago, shortshanks is starting to treat EVERYONE like he's been treating Police Officers... like shit!

again...is there anyone on the guard detail who can grab this mumbling,stumbling, farting, drunken shit-bum and take his ass for an involuntary admission?

GOD only knows there are plenty of Policemen who would love to...if only we could get close enough to the oily little turd and there are enough of us to make sure he doesn't slip away.

The real tax payers deserve better than this! HONESTLY, WHO THE HELL KEEPS RE-ELECTING THIS BUFFOON?

My drive home normally takes 30-40 minutes...Today it took me 2hrs and 45 minutes. I saw 3 snow plows and all they were doing was plowing the snow and NOT spreading salt...WTF mayor DICKHEAD!!! Im glad I have an SUV that I have to pay extra money for a city sticker every year!!

8:07 PM -- Channel 9's Julie Unruh was just sent out to drive from Addison and Western to O'Hare Airport -- what she described as "the worst assignment of her life" took her over two hours. She said that she only saw three or four plows or salt trucks anywhere during the entire agonizing trip, and that everything, both city streets and expressways, was extremely slippery.

Does the Mayor expect that he'll somehow be able to hide this situation? Even TV reporters are beginning to notice.

This, just as Blagojevich's mob connections -- on top of everything else -- are beginning to surface. If your Machine is going to lie and steal and connive on such a massive scale, at least keep the taxpayers quiet by clearing the snow.

In Edgebrook we used to have a privare contractor McGinty Bros plow our streets and alleys. If they had told us ahead of time that the city was no longer going to plow we could have hired someone. I don't blame anyone but the alderman Dougherty for not keeping his ward informed.

Tonight, my drive home took 2.75 hours (normally .75) to go 12 miles. I saw NO plows on L.S.D. from the Loop up to Irving. NOTHING on Irving W. to Milwaukee Ave. This is TOTAL bull shit. After Bloggo, it's Dick's turn for impeachment.

remember the 1999 snow -end of dec-early jan 1999/2000? imagine that now........tell your friends/fmaily to sue if they have an accident or a fall on the ice that the city should have plowed and salted

I drove from the loop to Forest Glen tonight, starting at 3 pm. It took me 2 and a half hours on the Kennedy!! WTF is wrong with this City?? Tommy Byrne needs to find a new job---he can't handle this one either.

it is time for the City Council to demand the testing of Daley's sanity. This man is not mentally right. He spends millions blowing off fireworks all spring, summer, and fall, but can't plow and salt the streets of Chicago properly to assure the safety of the taxpayers as much as possible. He can't hire police officers, not even to replace the attrition rate of the department, so citizens and fellow police officers can be safer from crime. His public schools are some of the worst in the nation, his political appointees are criminals and incompetents, our taxes here are the highest in the U.S., and the list could go on and on. He has to be mentally ill.

I saw a plow on 55th st @ Austin1830hrs, followed by a salt truck which was white and had no City of Chicago logos, followed by a ward SUV 23rd? Are we leasing salt spreaders? Give me that contract for 1000.00 Alec, or Sanchez or Torres or Piccardi or Tadin...... you get the point, be safe all.

Didn't see a plow, but there are now fewer street parking spots in my neighborhood thanks to S&S and the new signs they had time and money to erect. No plowing on the side streets, and more spots for ticketing - what a way to save and make money at the same time!

My commute was from downtown to Norwood Park, normally 30-40 minutes, tonight 2.5 hours from 4:00-6:30 PM. I, like most of you, during that time saw not a single Chicago plow or truck. I did see one plow but it was IDOT's on the Kennedy. 10:00PM now, I still haven't seen one, and I live on a snow route.

Sorry to change the subject.....but at 2025hrs Lilly Crump-Hales was spotted in the Rock-and-Roll McDonald's downtown. Is she a. changing teams b. strategizing to bring down homicides through a partnership with McDonald's c. Gathering information for the King? Well, C. seems to be the proper answer as at 2030hrs her Department vehicle was parking in the thru-way, blocking customer traffic and backing it up from Ontario to Ohio streets, as she sat there oblivious to what she had caused. Is the King behind this? Inquiring minds want to know. RONALD wants to know.

Looney Rooney says: did you ever wonder what has happened to the salt?Well I'd like to know. It seems that his "Highness Shortshanks"has been reportedly selling it to the local suburbs foe less than what the city of Snowcago paid. I think that this grounds for misapropriation of funds and I also hear that it was Blago and his former chied of staff JF (AEDELTA BOY) who were TAKING BIDS abd acting as middlemen for the sales......

I also want to know about this silly little rumor that has Shortshanks demanding that we (FOP) settle a contract to cover the next eight to ten years!. WTF! and no retro for the last three years! WTF Xs 10!!!!!

there better be somthing big coming with that ..... like maybe 25 years service & age fifty for 80% pension.

Please respond FOP.

How is it that Shortshanks can afford the 2016 summer olympic games? It's rumored that he has a stash put away for that.''(about a billion)''

He has been collecting interest for three years on the retro money he budgeted for us three years ago.........

but he can't afford t but we can't afford to salt and plow our streets?

I also hope the lack of salting and plowing get Shortshanks what he deserves.

I also pray that no one is seriously injured due to the frozen streets and snow build up.

Fuck this asshole daley, how can we get rid of this prick? These fucking streets are extremely dangerous, this asshole is putting all of us at risk. Another family member and I were already in the ER from slipping on the fucking ice because of this jagoff. And that is only from walking on the fucking street of ice. Driving is just as bad or worse, there have been numerous accidents in a few block area that we know of. I hope daley slips on the ice and DIES!What the fuck is wrong with this asshole?Be safe out there. None of the streets anywhere in the city are salted or plowed at all.These people in this city are some dumb mother fuckers for continuing to elect this piece of shit.If this is posted, (which I understand if it's not) and if some assholes are reading it other than Police Officers, I am not a cop. A citizen who hates daley.

i fell on my ass right in front of the 11th district. can anyone tell me if there are any video cameras? I shook it off, did not do an IOD report but would love to see it on camera so we could show city hall what a joke they are.

shortshanks reminds of the old joke about how the different parts of the body argued about who should be the boss...

the brain said "since i do all of the thinking, i should be boss".

the heart said "since i keep all of you going, i should be boss".

and so it went...the ears, the hands, the eyes and so on...

finally the asshole spoke and demanded that it should be boss. all the other body parts laughed & laughed at the notion of an asshole being the boss. this angered the asshole so much that he shut himself and refused to function... soon the brain was hot & swollen with fever, the eyes crossed and watered. the heart was sluggish, the hands were clammy and the feet dragged. all the body parts pleaded with the brain to relent and so it came to pass... all the other body parts did all the work, the asshole bossed, made a lot of noise & passed out a lot of shit.

kinda like the current state of affairs in chicago... the asshole laughs, shits on any & everyone, tells everyone to act like they enjoy it and to leave if they don't like it...

Did any one see the Mayor on the 10o clock news saying how he managed to find a extra 1 million dollars in the budget to salt and plow the streets tomorrow?

He acted he like just did us a big favor and saved the world.

Mr. Mayor what happened to all the millions that were in the budget for snow removal? This is only the second time we have had snow and it's just the middle of December!

Did you and your freinds steal all the snow removal MONEY again???

Why would you think if it costs 10s of millions of dollars each and every year for snow removal, it would only cost 2 million this year.

Are you retarded??? Have you lost the ability to effectively govern and manage the City of Chicago.

When does the amendment we voted for to be able to recall inefective elected officials take affect.

I know one thing, if I get in an accident, I will be looking for punative damages from the Mayor, the Director of Budget and Finance and the Director of Streets and San. No settlement here!!!

I know just the attorney too, he gets his rocks off suing the City.

I have been told that the plan is to play that the City is broke and create additional fees for trash pick up $300.00 a year, Snow removal $300.oo a year, street cleaning $100.00 a year.

Parking permits will soon be city wide. They have already sent out the letters to those who own pick up trucks, this will be free for the first year, $10.00 for the second year and $25.00 after that, then who knows. Next year you will be requied to have a parking permit for every vehicle just like your city sticker. And if you think the permits will be free you are wrong.

Fees for printing your city paycheck and the electronic deposit are also being concidered, $5.00 each payday. I don't have to tell you it won't be 5 bucks for very long!

These line items are already in committee and all are expected to pass by the 1st of march.

Now here's the big one, I waited til last. Be patiant here it comes!

A 1% City INCOME TAX, I have word that this a deal has already been made on this one. 1% now but expect 3% by 2012.

Any want to guess what the big sticking point was on this one. Any one??? No takers, O.K. I will tell.

Any and all elected Chicago official or or other elected officials who just live in the City will be exempt!

Don't believe me? I will will send you one of those little Wet Naps to you can wipe the egg off your face when this is all anounced after the first of the year.

We should get the Teamsters to loan us that big fucken rat they have and bring it to the budget meeting.

I happened to be in the Loop during the afternoon and evening, and the streets were an absolute joke. I didn't see a single snow plow until about 1900hrs, and then only three of them between then and 2230hrs. Driving down State St was treacherous. What the hell kind of city is this? The third largest city in the United States can't handle a basic service like snow removal? How can Chicago be expected to handle an operation as massive as the Olympics?

Just got off working special at MDWdrove there in 4WD,and 8 hrs later drove home in 4WD,Cicero and surrounding streets where worse going home than going to work.8 fucking hours and no plows or salt trucks!

It took me 3 1/2 hours tto get home home from court at 26th and cal. I saw 1 plow. Daley is full of shit. People will die in accidents because this prick wants to save money for the Olympics? Fuck you Shortshanks.

Lets not kid ourselves here. The money that Daley is not spending is going to wherever he is hiding the Skyway/Downtown Garages/ Midway/Parking Meter money at. I would imagine that the account bears the name of Chicago 2016.

He is going to raise sales taxes, and the hidden taxes, and fees until the International Olympic Commitee is satisfied with Chicago's ability to pay, and operate an Olympic event.

So is we just vote Comrade Chairman Daley out of office the next mayor will nut in his pants when he sees all this money that was hidden from public view by Daley.

Sorry to change the subject.....but at 2025hrs Lilly Crump-Hales was spotted in the Rock-and-Roll McDonald's downtown. Is she a. changing teamsb. strategizing to bring down homicides through a partnership with McDonald's c. Gathering information for the King? Well, C. seems to be the proper answer as at 2030hrs her Department vehicle was parking in the thru-way, blocking customer traffic and backing it up from Ontario to Ohio streets, as she sat there oblivious to what she had caused. Is the King behind this? Inquiring minds want to know. RONALD wants to know.

12/16/2008 10:07:00 PMShe lost her burger virginity and got scorned by the king. She is trying to get her groove back with Ronald McD/

The city lost a lot of $$ from us this yr. I know we don't matter in the scheme of things, a few thou in hotels, same in restaurants, but we spent all of our christmas $$ in town before. Crime is CRAZY there!!! Not your fault (esp. when your bosses are all criminals too!) but the city just sucks anymore.

Wow, we sure do cry about a lot of shit. I personally don't mind. 1. Now when I shovel my spots in front of the house the plow doesn't come by and screw up the job.2. My snowthrower clears the crap with ease because it isn't slushy from the salt.

I went to the medical section today to get off the medical. As I was leaving I slipped and fell on my ass just as I stepped off the curb to get to my car. I stayed down for two reasons. 1 because I haven't fallen down since I was 7 years old. 2 I was checking to see if anything hurt. To my regret, nothing did so I shook it off and went home. Now I'm home and my ankle is a little stiff. Fuckit. Too late.

Daley is sitting on $5-6 billion dollars in city assets that he has sold so far.The Mayor's Office released a statement after selling Midway Airport that the priority was to fund construction contracts and that the underfunded city worker pension funds were not a priority.The article was in the Chicago Sun-Times.

f this. i live in downers grove and took 290 home from downtown today from work during rush hour.......4 hours and 41 min.. i have traveled in years past from my office downtown and never had that long of a travel... its not just the city, i hear rumblings that the state is taking the same course of not plowing all day but all at once...more bang for the buck...send all trucks out at once for 4 hours instead of 8 or 12 while the snow is falling...just wait till the snow is done falling and all of my hair is gone...41 years of working downtown have i ever been stuck that long....well..maybe one year we had a big storm..but that was the exception!!

Yes, I remember the commercial in the early 80's. Little Janey Byrne standing in the street as the snow fell, blaming Bilandic for a lousy job. It worked! Too bad this wasn't an election year for mayor. Daley would have the streets spotless.

I suggest Gurnee Mills. Large parking lot and they plow it! Everything is indoors and with the economy the way it is, every freakin store had huge sales going. My wife was in heaven! The best part was we saved money and non of what we spent goes to Lord ShortShanks!!!

I have two words for Mayor Richard M. Daley concerning the current mess with regards to non-existent snow removal and ice covered streets as a result of little or no salt spread on streets:

MICHAEL BILANDIC

I hope and pray this incompetent and corrupt bastard Daley is booted out of office next time up in 2011. This is a good opportunity for someone to run for mayor and relentlessly remind the public of Daley's mistakes and crimes.

A family member of mine now is resting up with a large bruise from her fall on an unplowed and unsalted city street. I won't forget.

Speaking of which, the GPS people were up in 024 about 2 weeks ago. Seems like they are having a bit of a problem with the system because they were out in force working on each car that had already been fitted. Talked to one of the techs who told me it now looks like the system won't be online until June 2009.

A 1% City INCOME TAX, I have word that this a deal has already been made on this one. 1% now but expect 3% by 2012.

Nuff said!

12/16/2008 11:18:00 PM

I predicted a City Income Tax about 6 months ago.

It is the inevitable result of selling long term income producing capital assets. That sound you heard is the KY jelly being applied to the citizen's anal orifice for a real big fucking in the near future.

Anonymous said... i fell on my ass right in front of the 11th district. can anyone tell me if there are any video cameras? I shook it off, did not do an IOD report but would love to see it on camera so we could show city hall what a joke they are.

two street n sans. pick-up trucks with salt attachments plowing all the sidestreets around obama'a house for at least 3 hours- well past quitting time. i guess overtime doesnt apply here. i guess the main streets in garfield ridge, beverly , edison pk, hegewisch or mt. grnwd do not need salt

Went to bed at 2300, woke up at 0500 for work street is plowed and salted. Driveway clear too, snow removal company must have come out overnight. I reside on the corner and actually both streets were plowed. Also live in the city.

The powers that be, called us in too late. The streets started getting wet at 11am, we should've started salted around 2pm to prep for rush hour.

I just needed to make one or two passes on my route and it wouldve been clear.

Instead.

We were playing catch up the whole day. By the time rush hour started we were already screwed.

No joke, I could plow my entire route with in 30 mintues. It took me an hour n half to go ONE way.

I never worked so hard to get so little accomplished.

Ive been plowing downtown for a long time and never saw traffic so horrible.

The SNOW was NOTHING last night, Ive seen it 10 times worse and the we dropped the ball. I saw double-buses jack-knifed, abandoned cars, light poles and traffic signals down.

The best were our supervisors on the radio. . . lol.Classic !!!4pm they're telling our Commissioner the streets are looking great and breaking down to water ... WHAT ????

I actually turned my CB OFF

I really wanted to know WHICH streets they were talking about.

Not just that, the big bosses were going on the air telling all the guys to put down a LIGHT spread of salt ... lol... joke.

I was BLASTING my street and getting NOTHING done.

I can go only as fast as traffic. The salt needs to bounce across the pavement to prevent freezing and melt existing snow. When Im crawling along at 5mph, it doesnt help.

I do want to thank the POLICE downtown for acting like a linebacker for me ... lol. He or She came up my side and shagged some scum bag cabbies that just would not get out of my way. I proceeded to follow him for about 3 miles

I HATE CABS !!!!

We didnt start getting anything done until about 8pm, they switched us out around 11-12p-ish. As a CDL holder we can only work around 16 hours in a row.

SORRY people, we live in the neighborhoods too, most off us try to do a good job and make the streets safe.

12/16/2008 07:56:00 PMI always see one rolling in 811. Open your eyes.

12/17/2008 01:13:00 AMDipshit, we're talking main streets also. An engine in 008 took approximately 4 minutes to get 1 mile. It should take them less than 2. But hey, if you just want to plow in front of your own house and have the City plow nothing, good for you; Hope you need emergency services in a bad snowstorm and there is nothing plowed. They'll be there in, I'd say, about an hour. GFY

i ACTUALLY TOOK PHOTOS OF KING DICKHEAD'S ROUTE FROM HIS CASTLE TO HIS POT-A-POT DOWNTOWN AND THERE WAS SO MUCH SALT ON THE ROUTE THAT THE F&CK@ING STREET WAS PURE WHITE AND CRUNCHED AS i WALKED ON IT! I CALLED OUR SO-CALLED "NEWS" CHANNELS WITH THIS INFOMATION AND I WAS TOLD THAT THEY "WOULD NOT EMBARRASS THE CITY" BY SHOWING THE PHOTOS ... FUCK THIS CITY AND A GREAT BIG FUCK YOU TO YOU KING DICKHEAD!!

Over two hours in traffic yesterday.Drove north through Jefferson Park,Edgebrook and Wildwood and back. Radio reported ALL of the cities salt trucks were out in full force. I did not see ONE. NOT ONE. That story is complete BULLSHIT!

Came home from a bowling league at about 2300; Irving Park was in better shape than I-90. In fact, Irving was completely clear- no snow at all in the street. It took them eight hours after the snow started to fall, but they finally caught up. By then, hardly anybody was driving around. Hopefully all the people that spent 3-4-5 hours getting home remember this in 2011 when they vote. Of course, you know in 2010 he'll have the streets totally clear every time we even get flurries.

I call BS on the reports of all the snowplows also. I traveled from far south side to downtown yesterday at 1330, approx 20 miles and did not see ANY plows. My trip took 2 hours! Then on my return at approx 11pm I again did not see any plows,and it appeared as if Dan Ryan hadn't even been plowed yet. That trip took me an hour. Unbelievable.

They dropped the ball big time for this 2-4" snowfall storm. Even Idot who is usually on top of things, dropped the ball too. It took me close to 3hrs to get to work when it normally takes me 1/2 hour. It was insane and I almost ran out of gas. Wouldn't that have been a kick in the dick.

The new "Voice Of Snow Command" seems to be some fussy, balding metrosexual named Matt Smith, in expensive designer sweaters, shirts, and ties. Saw him on Channel 7 tonight looking down at the slip of paper the city'd given him to read, rattling it off in an annoyed tone.

A real confidence builder -- like he moved over from announcing canceled flights at O'Hare or something, a skilled position.

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This is the same one who was whining about "budgetary constraints" as the last storm came in.

Whose nephew is this?

The approaching storm is dumping on Las Vegas (!) as I write; should hit here by tomorrow afternoon. A few miles off the projected track one way, and we get 15" of snow. A little the other way, and it's an ice storm. Split the difference, right down the middle, and it'll be a real mess.

Maybe Smith can hit it with his blow dryer, save the day...

Yeah, it's just winter - but we used to be able to deal with it. We didn't piss away money all summer on fireworks and useless fencing and useless grooves and useless banners and double the street lighting needed; you should have seen the "Mayor Daley's Children's Program" box lunches I saw picked at and discarded in a northwest side park. Oh, the waste. Pushing food at the obese children of well-off people...giving them backpacks with City seals printed on them which they similarly discard...

Now there has to be a special session of the City Council to pass a new tax or sell something off to raise money every time a blip comes up on the weather radar.

My sources in Streets and San tell me they did not even call a snow program until 2P.M. and that was for 50%, at 3P.M. some brain figured they better make it 100% program as every street in the city was snow covered.One problem was they called in guys who work on midnights to come in, one guy I know said they called him at 2P.M., but it took him 2 hours to get to where his truck was at. By the time they load with salt and head to their route, GEE it's FUCKING RUSH HOUR!!!

Anonymous said... two street n sans. pick-up trucks with salt attachments plowing all the sidestreets around obama'a house for at least 3 hours- well past quitting time. i guess overtime doesnt apply here. i guess the main streets in garfield ridge, beverly , edison pk, hegewisch or mt. grnwd do not need salt

12/17/2008 06:48:00 AM

And they kept plowing and salting all day! Now with the next big ice and snow event in 1 more day we will have more traffic problems and waste more fuel that would contribute to the global warming lies right commandant richie!

What Daley is showing us in his public safety ineptitude vis-a-vis snow plowing is that he is untouchable and master of the universe because he's got the gang-bangers getting out the vote for him and voting for him in tandem with all the people in Chicago with patronage jobs.

He's at a point where he doesn't give a flying fuck what we think about him because he's got the math to assure re-election and if he can't get the votes, he'll steal them.

maybe specail K is plowing and spreading the salt for king Richie in frnt of his hse specail K makes sure the garbage is all picked up he such a suck ass, that I would love to see a plow on the front of his segway

Re: 12/16/2008 @ 0926hrs ... I also saw them assholes trimming the trees! Almost f*cking wet myself! Better yet, waiting for the bus at almost "Myway" airport, I saw 4! City Asshats PAINTING the new bike rack as it was snowing! What a f*cking waste of our $$.